Oh dear! See the thread below from the WLM International list.
It seems to me that we really must have a direct image upload link built in to the WLM
template on en.W which works even where we have an image of a building already. Part of
the purpose of the competition is to encourage new editors/uploads and we can't have a
system that requires specialist Wiki knowledge in every case where there is already an
image. We want lots of images of each building!
A question to those who know about bots: how difficult would it be to change the template
on en.W, and then run an update script over all the the pages that have been done so far?
I'm not sure where it would be best to add the upload link, but it shouldn't be
too intrusive as we may get resistance from the community. Is the technology behind the
template capable of having, for example, a small '+" button which overlays any
existing image and appears in the right hand corner? Or can anyone come up with something
better?
Regards to all. It's looking good at the moment for the UK's first foray into
this competition!
Michael
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From: Jean-Frédéric
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Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] How will competitors access the upload wizard from
the English Wikipedia?
Date: 19 July 2013 23:59:05 GMT+01:00
To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition
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Reply-To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition
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Hi Michael and all,
You raise a good point
If there is no existing image of a buidling, clicking on the last column goes to the
upload wizard, but if there is already an image it seems the competitor will need to do
some manual work to find the listing code and upload separately. That is not good.
What would you recommend? Have I missed something, or do we need to change the list
template so that it always has some sort of visible upload link?
Technically, this can be done easily. I guess it depends more on your community - for
example, on fr.wp, nobody really cared and Maarten (and then I) just went ahead and
tweaked the template ; I understand that on en.wp the NRHP project had to jump through
some hoops (because of some placeholder policy there).
So yeah, an upload link for each monument can definitely be added - you just need to know
if that is really what you want to have :)
--
Jean-Frédéric
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